Eulophia petersii Rchb. f. 1865 Photos by Bart Wursten ©, and his Flora Of Zimbabwe WebSite
Plant Photo courtesy of Jeff Merkle
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Common Name Peters' Eulophia [German Naturalist and Plant Collector in East Africa 1800's]
Flower Size 1 1/4" [3.1 cm]
Found in Burundi, Zaire, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Swaziland, Natal, Transvaal, Oman, Saudia Arabia and Yemen as a robust medium to giant sized, hot to cool growing terrestrial in sandy soil and on rock outcroppings under bushes among thickets in hot dry areas at 500 to 1800 meters in elevation with ovoid to cylindrical, ribbed, greenish yellow pseudobulbs carrying 2 to 3, stiffly succulent, linear-elliptic, gray green leaves with a finely serrated edge which blooms in the spring, summer and fall on an erect, often branched, laxly 30 to 200 flowered inflorescence with fleshy, musky scented flowers.
Synonyms Epidendrum schimperi Hochst. ex A.Rich. 1850; Eulophia baginsensis Rchb.f. 1878; Eulophia caffra Rchb. f. 1865; Eulophia circinnata Rolfe 1910; Eulophia coleae Rolfe 1897; Eulophia gumbariensis De Wild. 1919; Eulophia longipedunculata Rendle 1895; Eulophia phillipsiae Rolfe 1897; Eulophia schimperiana A. Rich. 1850; Eulophia smithii Rolfe 1897; *Galeandra petersii Rchb.f. 1847; Graphorkis baginsensis (Rchb.f.) Kuntze 1891; Graphorkis caffra (Rchb.f.) Kuntze 1891; Graphorkis petersii (Rchb.f.) Kuntze 1891
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Otia Botanica Hamburgensia Rchb.f 1881; AOS Bulletin Vol 32 No 10 1963 as E kaffra; AOS Bulletin Vol 32 No 10 1963; The Orchids of South Central Africa Williamson 1977 drawing fide; Wild Orchids of Southern Africa Stewart, Linder, Schelpe & Hall 1982 photo fide; Flora of Tropical East Africa Orchidaceae Part 3 Cribb 1989; Schlechteriana Vol 2 No 1 1991; Orchids of Kenya Stewart & Campbell 1996; Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Part 2 Pope 1998; Field Guide to the Ethopian Orchids Demissew, Cribb & Rasmussen 2004 photo fide; Field Guide to the Orchids of Northern South Africa and Swaziland McMurty, Grobler, Grobler & Burns 2008 photos fide; Terrestrial African Orchids, A select Review John S. Ball 2009 drawing fide
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